FranklinsTower/Eyes
of the World
TheMusic
Never Stopped
see
Events
for current schedules
Deadicated Bands Worldwide
a guide to Dead-inspired music
beyond the USA [last updated early 2004]
Please help us add to this
country-by-country list. Bands needn't be exclusively Dead,
just Dead (head) -friendly. Anyone else out there.... LET US KNOW!
BRITAIN:
COSMIC CHARLIES:The Charlies are playing Grateful Dead music--with Phishy tendencies -- now in London, around the UK, andin Europe. For news of upcoming shows, setlists and more see
TheCosmic
Charlies Home Page at Franklins.
Hotline: Brian (guitar,vocals): 01708863032
_________________________________________________________________
PICKLEPUSS
featuring Pat from the Charlies, playing
their own material plus
Traffic, Floyd, Phish, ZZTop, Beatles
and other good stuff.
pat.kenneally@virgin.net
Picklepuss often supports CosmicCharlies
at London shows.
___________________________________________________
BOX OF RAIN
now no more... members have formed the
Urban Spacemen,
"An electric, rock, blues, funk, jam, psychedelic type of band" but
not playing actual Dead material.
LAFFIN
BONES WERE a GD band
based in Bradford and the NorthEast.
Gigging regularly up North and occasionally
in London.
It is with a mixture of Relief & Sadness
that we must
announce the rather overdue demise of
that shabby
band of imposters known as LAFFIN BONES.
R. I. P.
(Radiant in Polyester)
Thanks for the memories
Sorry for the shite gigs !
WORKINGMAN's
DEED (formerlyTHE DeeD) were
a Grateful Dead band formed in GRANGEMOUTH in Scotland in 1998. The
Deed have quit all activities and this site has closed.
Many thanks to those who supported us
over the past few years.E mail: workingmansdeed@aol.com
SHOTGUN
RAGTIME BAND consists
of former Cosmic Charlies and others. Gigs are played in the UK and therest
of Europe, and for several years included the annual (formerly Spiral
Light) gathering at Chesham. No gigs for some years.....
cosmicmusic@yahoo.co.uk
ian.whitehouse@csfb.com
LAUGHING GRAVY
seem to have disappeared from the web
recently...
"Laughing Gravy are a four piece experienced band who thrive on
improvisation. Their influences range from Hank Williams
to Frank Zappa, taking up the
Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Little Feat and The Grateful Dead along
the
way! The emphasis is firmly on fun. A great pub
band!"
CANADA:
Among a number of CanadianDead bands Bokomaru fromMontreal is perhaps best known. Their newly updated page has samples ofrecent performances.
Greetings from Toronto...We'rea Deadlike Jam Band called Caution Jam, wondering if we could get on your list of Dead bands onthe music never stopped page. Thanks Caution Jam bbrook@interlog.com
A band called the MotherFunkers"are definitely influenced by the Dead though we only cover3 or 4 songs (1 per show max). Tennessee Jed, U.S. Blues, St-Stephen, TheOther One and we jammed on a few others including Eyes of the World atour last jam! " Thierry Arsenault <funkers@aei.ca>
Rose Garland "area
Grateful Dead tribute band in the Niagara Falls area who are startingto
really capture the spacey jams,this summer should really see the riseof
this new upcoming band! " <BShe742216@aol.com>
Buddhas Don't Box"havebeen
groovin', turning heads in St.Catharines; mixing their original materialwith
funky sounds of the 70's and 60's (Sly,Dead,Allmans)." <BShe742216@aol.com>
DENMARK:
TALE OF THE
WHALE
www.totwhale.dk
Hi !
We are another band in Denmark calledTALE
OF THE WHALE playing Grateful
Dead numbers and other songs in the samespirit..
The band was formed manyyears
ago, and started as an acustic duo( 1975) , with Kenth and Clovison guitars
and vocals. Today the band is 3 guitars Keneth Bro, Tom Gustavsonand Clovis
Gauguin as the main part. We are having
diffrent freinds of us ondrums,
bas and keyboards from other rock, blues and jazzbands, if the gigis for
it. The band has been playing in folkclubs, jazzclubs and a lotof other
places.We like to do small clubs with a good
spirit, where you can createan
evning of beautyness and good vibes with in the spirit of the Dead andtheir
great songs.
Yours Clovis Gauguin Gaugogh@get2net.dk
From: "s-874275" <gaugogh@get2net.dk>
Hi !
Tale of the whale a Danish Dead jamband
has got a new homepage where you can download the new studio session from
the band called " Live on the farm ". The homepage is: www.totwhale.dk
Garcia you all down the road !
Yours
Clovis Gauguin
Denmark
(March 2003)
WILD HORSES:
<pieterse.susanne@get2net.dk>
Jorn Christensen guitar, vocals
Hugo Pieterse, guitar, vocals
(+ sometimes drums, bass)
mainly songs from "Old and in theWay",
" Almost Acoustic" asf.
Played London in 98 - cuirrent statusuncertain.
Hugo Pieterse, Damhusvej 3 st.mf.5000
Odense, Denmark.
tif. 20-787763 Jorn: tif. 64-473764
Seventh Heaven isa
Danish seven piece Grateful Dead cover band ( 3 guitars, bass, keys,
drums and percussion). Theystarted
just after the last Dead party at Rytmeposten, The Garcia Memorialin
november '95, and will beplaying
in Hamburg for the New Year.
Hi - We're Seven'th Heaven. We know that the ' is not at all in place-
we're neither. But we are a danish seven member cover band - onlyplaying
Dead-music. If anyone is interested, it's possible to reach us byE-mail:
SevHeaven@yahoo.com. We'vbeen
playing together for 3 years - concentrating
on what you might call classical numbers ! From Friend of The Devilto
Terrapin Station.
Diff Paf Puf -A
special project based on the late seventies-early eighties dead-inspired
danish band Diff,
which members all now areprofessional
musicians/ sidemen in various danish constellations.Too name a few:
Pafpetakel, SensationelPsychopoppers,
Poets, Sort Sol and Dicte. The line up is off-course twodrummers, two
guys alternating on bassand
guitars and the original two guitarists from Diff.
Details: "massa" <massa@post10.tele.dk>
Diff played a gig in Nov 2001 in Nyborg.
FINLAND:
Two tribute bands, DHARMA BUMSand UNCLE JOHNS DEAD, played in Jerry tributes in Helsinki at theend of 1995. UJD were a special group for the occasion, the Dharma Bums(no relation to the US indie band of the same name) continue to gig occasionally...
Good to see Mikko from the Dharmas atthe Charlies gig in London in September 98...
Details: <mikko.kurenniemi@pp.inet.fi>
FRANCE:
DEADICACE
are
the (currently dormant) Paris-based GD cover band behind
the series of all-night Dead celebrationsin France, starting with 1996's
Captain
TripsFestival. As well as headlining a series of major Parisian events,the
band also plays Amsterdam and Germany. One recent event was an openair
Solstice 99 gig in Paris. No gigs in the last year or three.
Details: Bill Giles, ridethewind@worldnet.fr
Christophe Rossi,+33 1 40 35 73 73
These (and other) bands were
also playing Dead music in the nineties....
LES BRELOUZES, anotherFrench
GD band, some of them still at school! Energetic rock and roll withsome
great harp playing. "Brelouzes"= "(Jacques) Brel + the Blues."
COUSIN MEDARD: Dead-inspired
music and covers by various bands including French versions of St Stephenand
Dire Wolf (Loup Solitaire), Promised Land, and Like a Rolling Stone(Comme
une Ame Errant!). An acoustic version played CSNY and Bruce Cockburnsongs
last year at the landmines event in Paris.
FOOL MOON plays coversof
Dead, Allmans, Van Morrison and much more as well as their own stuff.
Several other bands and individuals arealso
interpreting Dead material.
GERMANY:
Full details of Dead events in Germany at The Wheel , the German Deadheads homepage.
An annual Black Forest Event, Feier onthe Mountain, hosts many European Dead bands, and the Cosmic Charlies arenow playing regular German gigs. Other German bands, some just one-offs, have included the Hamburg based TUMBLEWEED, an acoustic duo calledTHE WHEEL, and AOXOMOXOA, playing the occasional Dead-related coveralong with its own stuff.
Schluff
Jull are a long-established 13-piece German band playing
their own material but inspired by the Dead and with three CDs
available. The Jull did play "Dark Star" at a recent show and are adding
more Dead tunes to the repertoire....
ISRAEL:
REVA
L'SHEVA (QUARTER TO SEVEN)
http://www.revalsheva.com/
Band leaderYehudah
Katz, who is also the lead singer and acousticguitarist, previously
toured the world with his mentor, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach;the new disc has
sold about 7,000 copies in four months. Katz,a ba'al teshuva (reborn Jew)
and former medical student, came here fromLos Angeles in 1993, by
which time he'dalready become a serious "Deadhead" or Grateful Dead fan.
He lives in MoshavBeit Meir near Jerusalem and has eightchildren."
EIN SAFEK (NO DOUBT)
"There is a band in Israelthat
plays gdead stuff great! they play mostly in Jerusalem. The band iscalled
Ein Safek. They are wierd religious hippies from Moshav Mod'iin.They play
every Sunday night in Kalba Savua in Jerusalem (migrash haroosim).they
play dead, and sometimes a bit of Van Morrison. many american deadheadcome
to do your weird kind of swirling dancing (I myself am not a deadhead,just
like the music...) "
This is all we know aboutEin
Safek... any further information much appreciated!
"Uri Lotan, an ex-DJ forthe Army Radio Station, had a late nite show once a week for years-- mostlythe Dead, Zappa, Lennon, etc. He also did a New Year's Dead Marathon fora couple of years, too. He followed that up with shows on 2 commercialstations that he sort of had to sneak Dead songs on to. He has organizedabout 5 Dead video nites at the Tel Aviv Cinemateque since summer '95 witha full house almost every time."
JAPAN:
There currently seem to be at least EIGHT bands in Japan, most based around particular clubs. HERES FOR THERES(the bluegrass side of things), JOHNNY APPLESEED, TOKYO WARLOCKS, UNCLE JOHN's DEAD, CHINA CATS, DEAD FLOWER, BIG FROG and The KAMAKURA DEAD...and various combinations thereof.
BIG FROG
From: Yugo Wakimoto <mt7y-wkmt@asahi-net.or.jp>
Subject: This is big frog!
Hello! This is big frog writing. Thankyou
for put our name at your HP.
Now we got BIG FROG web site. Please checkthis
out.
http://www.bleshing.com
This is our e-mail
fuze@bleshing.com
If you have any question for us, pleasefeel
free to ask us.
Thank you, Peace, BIG FROG
The CHINA CATS, who have been playingsince the eighties, released their first CD, China Cats Trips Band ,late in 96, mainly their own material with some Dylan. An earlier cassette featured several Jerry cover tunes. Another musician has released a CD, GratefulBed, inspired by the Dead.
Yukotopia and Frisco West are club-style venues for Deadish music. Juggling Suns, the Dave Nelson Band and Toni Brown played Tokyo. Jon Fishman recently visited Japan and sat in with Big Frog. US tribute+ band The Zen Tricksters played some Japan gigs in 2002.
The August 98 edition of RELIX featured
a survey of the Japan scene.
Moliken's great English-language
Japanese Dead Page seems to have disappeared... come back soon!
Relix
Japan now covers the Japanese scene.
AMSTERDAM Netherlands
SWAMP CHICKEN
http://www.swampchicken.nl/
andre.romana@wolmail.nl
kerns@xs4all.nl
" Swamp Chicken" plays Dead and other related music covers
as well as
our own brand of So. Cal. influnced original roots rock.
Bassist Eric Kerns has often played with the Charlies and his band
opened for them
at recent 2001 Amsterdam gigs.
Dec 2003:
Hello Bill,
Eric from Swamp Chicken Here. WE have a new CD in the works, should
be out before spring.
And a New web site for the band coming too. I'll let you know.
I noticed you have an old email contact for me on your Band listing
site.
My new address is .... kerns@xs4all.nl
Comments: Hello my name is Andre from Holland. I play in a band called
SwampChicken. We play our own music but also some covers from the dead.
We played a mini tour in Amsterdam with the Cosmic Charlies. Can you please
put our site on your band list so people can check us out?? Greetings Andre
(SwampChicken) ( May 2002)
________________
COLIN DOBSON, an Occasional CosmicCharlie , is gigging in Amsterdam clubs...
From: Colin Dobson
david Wagman <wavydavy@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Wed & Sun eveningsDead
Jams in Amsterdam!!!!!
HI bill, just dropping youa
line to let you and other 'Heads' know that I can be found on a semi-regularbasis
jamming Dead tunes [with a liberal dose of Dylan and Young] withlocal musicians
in either one of these two venues here in Amsterdam ; THELAST WATERHOLE
[on Oudezijds Armsteeg in the red light area] usually ona Wednesday night,but
sometimes Thursday, and at THE MALOE MELO [on theLijnbaansgracht] on Sunday
nights. I can't guarantee that I'll always beplaying [even if I'm there]
as this city is choc-full of band-less guitarists,but thse venues are both
well worth checking out in any case.Needless tosay, if there is anyone
who fancies getting up on stage with me, its usuallypossible to borrow
an instrument.Ok, I guess that's about it [for the otherone...]
Keep Up The Good Work!!!
COLIN DOBSON
P.S. to find out ifI'm goingto
be playing e-mail care of wavydavy@xs4all.nl
In 1997 a band called DREADFUL GRATEwas reported to be playing the Amsterdam Cannabis Cup festival... that'sall we know!
NORWAY:
In 95 and 96 Dead celebrations took placein Oslo at the Centrum Scene, with several hundred people attending tohear live bands. Unfortunately the venue closed during 1997.
Dear friends, I'm sorryto announce that the planned evening at Sentrum Scene in Oslo had to becancelled this summer due to the fact that the place is closed down - permanentlyit seems. It's very sad because the deal we had with Sentrum was reallythe perfect one for such an event. The previous two years were really successful,with 4-500 tickets sold, and the music was really good....
Vidar.Kvistad@s.nett.telenor.no
SWITZERLAND:
The Zurich-based band DEAD END reformed at the end of 96 and played regular shows in Einsiedeln,Switzerland throughout 96-97. Since 1998 the band seem to have brokenup again... one member, Pete, helped out on bass at the Deadicace gig in London in August 98. Nothing heard since then.
The Shotgun Ragtime Band are partly Swiss-based and play gigs there from time to time.
Details: Pete Seitz, guitarist: +41 55412
81 55
"Helmut Frank" <grateful_helmi@logon.ch>
Eyes of the World
billpannifer@easynet.co.uk